"Even if you practice only for an hour a day with faith and inspiration, good qualities will steadily increase. Regular practice makes it easy to transform your mind. From seeing only relative truth, you will eventually reach a profound certainty in the meaning of absolute truth."Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.

smcj wrote:In the past the PRC has liberalized its position about free speech, but only to see who it was that was dissenting. Then they arrested them.

But that was in Lhasa. They wouldn't try something like that again in another province, would they?

(Sorry for the sarcasm.)

Mao did something like that with "the blooming of a thousand flowers" or some such. He allowed non-Communist culture and then several years later, killed anyone who had produced non-Communist culture over the last few years.

Equanimity is the ground. Love is the moisture. Compassion is the seed. Bodhicitta is the result.

"All memories and thoughts are the union of emptiness and knowing, the Mind.Without attachment, self-liberating, like a snake in a knot.Through the qualities of meditating in that way,Mental obscurations are purified and the dharmakaya is attained."

smcj wrote:In the past the PRC has liberalized its position about free speech, but only to see who it was that was dissenting. Then they arrested them.

But that was in Lhasa. They wouldn't try something like that again in another province, would they?

(Sorry for the sarcasm.)

Mao did something like that with "the blooming of a thousand flowers" or some such. He allowed non-Communist culture and then several years later, killed anyone who had produced non-Communist culture over the last few years.

It is likely that this report is incorrect. The BBC is reporting that monasteries they have contacted report no change. The PRC state bureau of religious affairs has also stated that there has been no change. The BBC report is here.

"Even if you practice only for an hour a day with faith and inspiration, good qualities will steadily increase. Regular practice makes it easy to transform your mind. From seeing only relative truth, you will eventually reach a profound certainty in the meaning of absolute truth."Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.